Hello,

I have 24 port Mikrtik CloudRouter Switch, not sure what to make of it. I have several Mikrotik routers and while I'm far from being an expert I know how to configure my IP addresses for the various ports, and my routes, and set up PPPoE server if needed or a VPN server. I can not figure this CloudRouter switch thing out. I connect to it via winbox and wow, it looks exactly like the Routers I have set up. So I change the 192.168.88.1 managment IP but then I can not access it via that IP (I can still access it via Winbox /MAC address) .

No matter what I try I can not get any IP address to work so I ended up defaulting it and just plugging stuff into like I would a switch and accessing it via Winbox/MAC.

Next I try to Torch an Interface (Right click on the Interface and click TORCH) and it pops up with the correct port and 0.0.0.0/0 in both Src and Dst but no data shows up. I look at the interface list and right there it shows 20Mbps of data passing through the port. I try again, nothing.

Is this just the Router OS running on a switch and instead of not including all the router options that don't work they left them there for you to click on and wonder why they don't actually work ?

We had a little shiny red 10 port Mikrotik switch around here a while back and I never could get a management IP to work on it and there was something goofy about Port 1 on the switch.

So , should I be able to torch the interfaces on these things ? Any hints on how to change the management IP address and actually access the switch actually using that address ?

Thanks !

If you want to use routing related features, you need to remove those specific ports from the Switch (Unset "Master port" value from this port). By default, ports are switched, and only some options are available for them.

If you want to use routing related features, you need to remove those specific ports from the Switch (Unset "Master port" value from this port). By default, ports are switched, and only some options are available for them.

OK so you are saying that if I want to change the management IP and actually access the switch via that IP I have to remove a port from the switch and then assign an IP to that port ? I assume I have to be plugged into that port also and can't access it from the switch ports ?

I guess that also means Torch won't work on a switched port ? Is there any way to do something like Torch on the switch ports ?

Thanks

When ports are in switch group, only IP addresses configured on master-port interface are accessible from those ports.
And Torch can monitor traffic only processed by CPU, not by a switch-chip. There is no tool in a switch-chip except traffic mirroring.

When ports are in switch group, only IP addresses configured on master-port interface are accessible from those ports.
And Torch can monitor traffic only processed by CPU, not by a switch-chip. There is no tool in a switch-chip except traffic mirroring.

I don't want to assign IP's to ports I just want to access the management interface just like I would on any other managed switch. So that's the only way ? You have to remove one port from the group and treat it like a routed port so you can assign an IP address to it ? The switch can't just have a management interface with an IP address ?

No, you assign it to the Master Port, which is Port 2 by default (I think, memory is a bit hazy, might be port 1) which is then accessible from any port in the switch group

I have a CRS226 , the default master port for mine was port 1. You have to remember the router performance in some of these models is comparatively poor, so be very careful when you move functionality outside of the switch chip. As an example I used the router software based trunking, and the aggregate performance was about 1/3 of a single gig link